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10 health benefits of sex

Sex can improve your immune system, increase your blood circulation and increases your lifespan. The secret of a healthy life was far simpler than dieting or running on the treadmill. According to experts, having sex at regular interval can really be beneficial for your health and can also keep you fit. They also claim that it can improve your immune system, increase your blood circulation and increases your lifespan. As […]

Not so Swachh: Indian men less likely to use toilets even if available

Indian men are less likely to use toilets than women, even if they have access to one, a five-state study by market research firm IMRB and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has found, in what could be bad news for the government’s flagship Swachh Bharat mission. The study, commissioned by the urban development ministry, looked at the toilet habits of 4,400 urban poor households in 30 districts of Rajasthan, […]

 
 
 

Trailer out! Hrithik Roshan's 'Mohenjo Daro' is powerful enough to take you back in time – Watch now

Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan is back with a bang! Yes, UTV Motion Pictures just released the trailer of ‘Mohenjo Daro’ online and it is breaking the internet already. From visual-effects to acting, the upcoming Indian epic adventure-romance film looks majestic in every sense. With this trailer, Ashutosh Gowariker has pretty much confirmed that he is all set to take the Box Office by storm once again. ‘Mohenjo Daro’ also features […]

Shiv Sena at 50: From militant chauvinism to mid-life blues

It was a cool rainy day on June 19, 1966, that a frail, young political cartoonist with fiery eyes assembled a loose ‘Army of Shivaji’ and launched the Shiv Sena for espousing the case and cause of ‘sons of the soil’. After many ups and down, mostly the latter, the saffron, ultra-right party is now celebrating the golden jubilee of its founding. A mega-bash is planned on Sunday to mark […]

 
 
 

Meet the 12-year-old coder who ‘loves to share his knowledge’

For normal pre-teens, the learning curve has just begun and there is a long path to tread before they can actually make any significant contribution to the world. Well, the case is not the same for 12-year-old Indian origin Tanmay Bakshi from Canada; he is already one of the youngest developers in the world. Reaching out toward attaining his dream at a tender age of five, he has worked very […]

Do you know which phone US President Obama uses? The answer is here

US President Barack Obama will appear tonight on the famous “Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon on a TV channel, where he has revealed the phone he has been using. Obama said on the show that he was a ‘super’ Blackberry fan and had has been using his “increasingly rare” BlackBerry device before he took office. However, with the smartphone world moving faster, Obama said he has been given a brand […]

Woman gives birth to a harlequin baby in Nagpur; first case in India

 In what could be termed as the country’s first known case, a 23-year-old woman gave birth to a baby girl with a severe genetic disorder called Harlequin Ichthyosis which mainly affects the skin.   Infants with this condition are born with very hard, thick skin covering most of their bodies and their internal organs visible. The baby weighing about 1.28kg was born in the wee hours at 12.45am on Saturday […]

Lokesh Rahul becomes first Indian batsman to hit century on ODI debut

Prodigious Lokesh Rahul on Saturday became the first Indian batsman to hit a century on One-Day International debut, as he helped Men in Blue thrash Zimbabwe by nine wickets at Harare. Chasing a modest target of 169 runs, India opted to open the innings with two debutants in Karun Nair and Rahul. For the record, last time two debutants opened for India in an ODI was in 1976, when Parthasarthi […]

For India's surging economy, small is beautiful

 For Rohan Sharma, business has never been better. Sales at his autoparts company in Gujarat are booming and the order book has almost doubled in the past year.    His Bhagirath Coach & Metal Fabricators has just invested nearly $120,000 in new machinery and plans to spend up to $1.2 million this year to expand capacity.  That’s an encouraging sign for Asia’s third-largest economy, where stressed balance sheets at big […]

 
 
 

An earth without humans: Apocalypse or blessing for the planet? Watch this video

Earth without humans. We’ve probably all thought about it at one time or another. And thanks to recent trends towards the post-apocalyptic, particularly in Hollywood, we have the iconic images that give us an inkling of the aftermath. But how exactly would this formidable but hypothetical future unfold? Now, a video traces the timeline of this future, beginning with the minutiae of the first hours and days after humans disappear, […]